Here Is What's Wrong With Cornel West Hating on Ta-Nehisi Coates

West is not really mad at Coates. He is still hot-mad at Obama.by Charles MudedeCornel West in the middle (where he at?), In the middle.scarletsails/gettyimages.com
I must begin by recalling the afternoon I read The Future of the Race, a medium-sized book about the most prominent black American intellectual in the early years of the 20th century (W. E. B. Du Bois)by two of the most prominent black intellectuals at the end of that century (Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West). I read the book i